Category Archives: Linguistic Landscaping

Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (6)

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

Thank you, Joan Beal, for responding to my call for pictures of works on language in bookshops! Bascially, the question is to see whether usage guides are displayed at all, as somethimes they are, and often enough not. This picture … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (5) – Slovenian

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

My request for information and images of how bookshops in other cities than the ones I frequent promote prescriptivism, and in particular usage guides, has met with a response! Thank you, Matjaž Zgonc, for your pictures of the linguistics section … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (4)

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

It occurred to me that what I’m doing with this project is similar to what Yorick van Norden did for his book The Platenkast van Paul McCartney (“Paul McCartney’s record collection”) which came out earlier this year. Except that my … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (3)

Posted on August 21, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

I had to be in Leiden for a social event this week, so decided to go a little earlier and visit as many of the bookshops in the city centre as I could manage. Three of them this time, all … Continue reading →

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Linguistic Landscaping in Bookshops (2)

Posted on August 19, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

So far, I’ve got data from four bookshops, one in the UK (Foyles – London), two in The Netherlands (De Vries van Stockum – The Hague; Boekhandel Broekhuis – Almelo) and one in Germany (Dussmann – Berlin). On the start … Continue reading →

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